The Midwit Problem

Here's the brutal truth about why making money feels so damn confusing: our entire society is designed and controlled by midwits.

...and no, that's not just me being harsh.

It's a specific type of person that's created the very systems that keep you confused about wealth.

Most people view money and how to make it is fundamentally wrong. They've been programmed by what I call "midwit tyranny," and once you see this system for what it really is, you'll never be able to unsee it.

So what exactly is a midwit?

Picture this:

You've got complete idiots on one end who are actually pretty happy drinking beer, watching the game and planning there weekend trip to the beach.

They're fine.

Then you've got genuine geniuses on the other end who just deliver results and get paid massive amounts of money without ever having to ask for permission.

But in between?

That's where most of society lives, smart enough to want more out of life, but not smart enough to actually deliver advanced results or achieve real leverage.

These are midwits, and they're masters of one thing: impersonating the appearance of intellect and competence.

They want to get paid to be smart.

How Midwits Control the Money Game

They create complex systems and hierarchies that allow them to embed themselves like little leeches into the flow of money.

Think about it:

• Politicians who never actually solve problems.
• Corporate daycare for women who sit in meetings all day, drinking coffee and using words like "aligned" every 2 minutes.
• Most of Silicon Valle where 90% of people are simulating what they think smart people look like.
• The endless complexity in medical and legal fields that helps nobody but supports itself.

These people don't deliver results. They literally just sit around, talk, do calls, drink coffee and simulate intelligence all day.

They've created systems where you can't get money without going through them first.

The Midwit Systems That Keep You Poor

When you graduate from high school and think "How do I make money?", you look around and see these midwit systems everywhere:

• The college system: Pay for 4 years of mostly useless information to get a piece of paper.
• The corporate ladder: Where success isn't based on results or hard work, but on playing political games and excelling at meetings.
• Professional hierarchies: Where you need permission from midwits to move up and make more money.

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The reason making money feels so confusing is because you're looking for permission from midwits inside midwit systems.

You're trying to climb a giant ladder of stupidity for 40 years instead of understanding what actually creates wealth.

Actually Make Money Through Results and Leverage

Here's what midwits can't do and what will make you rich: deliver results and gain leverage from those results.

That's it. That's literally all money is.

Let me give you a concrete example. If I could walk into any million-dollar business in America and press a button that instantly made them 5% more revenue ($50,000 more per year), I could easily charge $10,000 every time I hit that button.

Doesn't matter what my job title is. Doesn't matter how I behave. I could show up naked, be rude to everyone, and they'd still pay me.

Why?

Because I have leverage through results. Especially if I'm the only person who can do that.

Real-World Examples of Results and Leverage

When I quite my job at PwC and went to Thailand to join my then Thai gf (she was an exchange student in America, not some bar like old men always pair up with) I became an English teacher because I had no skills and it was the best way at the time to stay in Thailand.

After a year or so of teaching, I loved living abroad but knew that teaching English is a trap. So I had to get to work on building skills.

Building websites, SEO, email marketing. Then I got really good at building high converting sites, was able to use my experience as a Fiverr gig.

That gig became highly rated and now I can leverage that gig as social proof for courses and more expensive coaching.

Skills are how you deliver results and you don't need to be some maxed out master in all areas. You just need to be above average in one area and combine that main skill you have with various other skills to form a skill stack or a talent stack as Scott Adams calls it.

That means you're not the best at any one thing, but you have a useful combination that of skills that support themselves.

Skills → Results → Leverage → Wealth

Skills are what deliver results and your results are all that matter.

Look at LeBron James.

He gets paid $50 million a year because when you put him on a team, that team makes hundreds of millions more.

How does he do that?

Through his skills in basketball and his brand. That gives him leverage to ask for ungodly amounts just to put his name on a shoe.

Now let's bring this down to earth for the rest of us.

If You're an Employee

Don't play the corporate ladder game. Don't worry about office politics. Instead, seek excessive skill and mastery in your trade.

Like Seth Godin wrote about in Linchpin (fantastic book) over a decade ago, the key aspect is to become indepensable in some way.

Like if you're doing customer service, how can you help reduce churn rate, master the customer service department, become insanely helpful? The goal is to gain leverage so you can demand more money or if you're dealing with a stupid boomer boss move to a different company.

If You're an Entrepreneur

Same exact principle with your product or service. Get so good at delivering specific results that people can't go anywhere else.

Alex Becker has his Hyros company. He started off as an SEO bro with SourceWave.com. He built that guru brand through running ads, SEO to his website, YouTube and using email marketing to sell products.

The ad aspect is where he became frustrated. Running ads and not being able to track everything properly was super annoying.

Is this ad working? Is it not? I don't know!

So he built Hyros to track ads.

The end result is a platform you pay for that helps you make more money. Hyros is not an expense, it helps you track ads and make more money. For anyone running ads with an ad spend in the thousands, it's a no-brainer to pay for Hyros.

How to Actually Build This Leverage

Here's exactly how you build the skills that create results and leverage:

Step 1: Pick Your Trade and Go Deep

Think of it like a skill tree in a video game (and yes, you know what a skill tree is – don't pretend you don't).

Pick your trade and go as deep as possible:

• Look at where your industry is heading.
• Identify what's cutting-edge that most people don't know how to do yet.
• Learn that skill to the point where you're one of the few people who can deliver those results.

If you can do something at a higher level than everybody else, it's in high demand, and nobody else can do it, you're going to make serious money because you have results and leverage.

Step 2: Focus on Business Needs

While I operate in B2C, business have the revenue to spend so if you're reading this, I suggest B2B over B2C if you want to make serious cash because businesses have clear, measurable needs.

By business, I also mean successful soloprenuers, influencers with small teams or genuinely small businesses. Not Exxon Mobile.

Look at what businesses are trying to achieve and where there's breakage or things that can be radically improved.

For example:

• Can you help lower customer churn? This is an issue for those who run Skool communities.
• Can you improve their sales process? Most people are awful when it comes to copywriting and design.
• Can you make their operations more efficient? SOP? What's that? Too many run scrappy, cobbled together business instead of professional stream lined opperations.
• Can you help them make more money or save money?

If you can come to a small business making $500k-2 million per year and improve their results by 20% through your expertise, they'll happily pay you well for that value.

Step 3: Stop Playing the Midwit Game

Here's what you DON'T focus on:

• Going to college for a piece of paper. Studying for your masters degree, then getting a PhD. Hiding away in school to avoid work.
• Playing corporate hierarchies. Corporate is now female daycare.
• Worrying about people liking you.
• Trying to impress people with big words and job titles.

Instead, just become so damn good at something that you have the ability to deliver results. That automatically gives you leverage.

This Works in Any Field

Think I'm only talking about tech, YouTube and business? Wrong. This principle works everywhere.

The person who built my friends Johnny's house is world class at home construction and now only deals with budgets of at least a million dollars. He's the guy if you want a luxury build in Thailand.

This is becoming more and more true for tradesmen as well. If you get really deep into plumbing, HVAC or being a skilled electrician; figure out how to fix certain problems can handle like how my brother does for security systems as an electrician.

You'll have massive leverage and you'll be rich. Maybe not rich rich, but a few million to your name that you can dump into Bitcoin. You'll be set in just a few short years.

The Mental Shift That Changes Everything

Every time you're thinking about making money or getting rich, ask yourself this one question:

"Am I obtaining the skills that give me results and leverage?"

If the answer is no, go back to the drawing board. Stop thinking in terms of the midwit society system with all its confusing hoops and ladders. Start thinking about the absolute heart of making money: skills, results and leverage.

This isn't about working harder in the traditional sense. Working 80 hours a week in a corporate job where success depends on office politics?

That's actually much harder than what I'm suggesting.

What I'm talking about is:

1. Pick something you can get exceptionally good at.
2. Focus all your energy on mastering it.
3. Become so good that you deliver results others can't.
4. Use that leverage to get paid what you're worth.

Why This Works When Everything Else Fails

The beautiful thing about this approach is that you're not asking for permission anymore. You're not begging midwits in midwit systems to let you make money. You're not playing their games or climbing their stupid ladders.

You're going straight to the core of value creation. You're doing the one thing midwits can't do: deliver actual results.

And here's the kicker, once you understand this, you'll see opportunities everywhere. Every business problem is a potential source of leverage for someone with the right skills.

Every inefficiency is a chance for someone who can deliver results to make serious money.

The Bottom Line

Recognize the midwit tyranny that's designed to keep you asking for permission.

Focus on skills that deliver measurable results.

Build leverage from your ability to get those results.

Stop playing games and start delivering value.

Then save in Bitcoin.

Most people will never figure this out because they're too busy playing the games that midwits created to protect themselves. But you? You now understand the real game.

LFG.